IDNO

D.64284.BUR

Description

Polychrome painted image depicting a group of hunters returning from the kill carrying the bodies of crocodiles above their heads.

Place

S Africa; South Africa; ?Johannesburg

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Kibozi [Artist] Member of Burkitt expedition team

Collector / Expedition

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Date

circa 1927

Collection Name

Burkitt Collection

Source

Burkitt, Miles Crawford

Format

Drawing

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.64202.BUR to P.64285.BUR and P.65862.BUR were found inside the envelope now numbered C123/4/5/. This envelope, which originally contained a set of 15 postcards of the British Museum, was found inside the fourth drawer (C123/4/) of the entire green cabinet now numbered C123/.

A miniature reproduction on card of a scene painted by the African artist, Kibozi, sold to help the S. A. Institute of Race Relations (W. O. 219) P.O. Box 97, Johannesburg.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Getty Grant Program Two. [Sarah Worden 28/11/2006]